DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Patricia Scarampi received her Ph.D. in French and Applied Linguistics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2008. She teaches a variety of language and culture courses across all levels of the curriculum. Two of her courses are cross listed with the department of Linguistics: French Phonetics and Foreign Language Learning: Theory and Practice. Since 2011, she has been responsible for the pedagogical training and mentoring of graduate students. Her research interests focus on Second Language Acquisition, Digital Learning, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, and Translation. She is the co-author of Flipped French, a digital textbook for Intermediate French that launched in 2022. Using cutting edge technologies and innovative pedagogical methods, Flipped French offers an adaptive learning platform with formative feedback. This long-term project, built in collaboration with the Media and Design Studio, has been supported by the Department of French and Italian, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost, the University Libraries, and the Alumnae of Northwestern through numerous grants.

As an active member of the Council on Language Instruction, she currently chairs the Excellence in Language Teaching Award Committee. She has received several awards such as the CLI Excellence in Foreign Language Teaching Award in 2019, the Faculty Honor Roll by the Associated Student Government (ASG) in 2015 and in 2020, and the Canvas Most Innovative Course Site in 2023.